The ever increasing doughnut hole
The doughnut hole, or the payment that Medicare patients make when their medications cost more than $2700 a year is going to get bigger. The new bill in Congress is supposed to close the payments over the next 10 years so that all pharmacy payments will be covered by Medicare. However, because of increases in [...]
Testify in congress for pain issues
Those having to deal with the federal government in the payment or remittance of equipment or services have an excellent idea of the red tape that is involved. For those of us with CRPS, it can be almost impossible to get the governmental people on the other end of the phone to understand. They have [...]
Massachusetts Governor cuts disability programs
With falling revenues hitting all states is was a matter of time before the programs that the disabled need were cut. Massachusetts lost revenue from families unable to pay for their property taxes or income taxes and has put the state in a tough situation. Many programs have been cut and state workers all over [...]
Medicare recipients already dropped
For those that have not followed all the reports on the new medical bill making it’s way through the Senate, Medicare recipients are losing doctors, hospitals, and general care right now. My doctors have to be careful which medications that the prescribe because many times the company paid by Medicare will not OK the drug. [...]
HIPAA costing lives in longrun
All of us are worried about our personal data getting out to the Internet so that identity thieves can steal our bank accounts. Plus, health insurance companies have used personal data to drop patients or deny services based on items found in old health forms. To make sure that these types of things cannot occur [...]
Medicare overpays again
A US Inspector General has reported that Medicare overpays almost $1000 on every wheelchair that they rent rather than purchase. The idea behind the Medicare program is that the disabled will have someone to go back to if there is a problem with their chair and that the repairs will be included with their monthly [...]
Disabled heckled at meeting
At a town hall meeting in New Jersey a disabled woman who spends half her day in a wheelchair was heckled. She started to explain that she has Rheumatoid Arthritis and Sjogren’s Syndrome, both which destroy healthy nerves. Then she explained what she thought should be in the health care bill for the disabled when [...]
Olmstead Act turns 10
Ten years ago the Olmstead Act was put into law. This act removed the last of the “ugly” laws that controlled where and how disabled people lived in the state of Georgia. A lawsuit then started where land owners and home owner associations tried to make their rules against the disabled the official law of [...]
Senator Kennedy Dies
One of the longest sitting senators in history has died. Mr. Kennedy was always a champion of the disabled and pushed legislation through for the disabled in education and was instrumental in getting the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) pushed through the senate. Many of us would not have a place to call home or [...]
Medical insurance changes on the way
The Department of Health and Human Services has developed a website to educate the public on the new medical insurance bill going through congress now. Pundits on the left and right have been discussing this bill for the last two months but no one has taken the time to actually write down what to [...]
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